Audit Reports

Freight is a profit making business segment of Indian Railways and is the backbone of railway revenues.  Over the years the market share of Indian Railways has been consistently shrinking and railways was losing out to road.Indian Railways laid ...

We conducted a performance audit on levy of excise duty on pharmaceutical products (Chapter 30 of Central Excise Tariff Heading) to evaluate the adequacy of provisions of the Act, Rules and instructions in ensuring proper assessment, collection and...

India, producing more than 1,000 feature films per year, is the largest film producing country in the world. During the period 2005-2009, film production registered a growth of 5 per cent per annum. The film industry registered growth of 9.7 per...

Growing integration within the global economy has led to increased flow of capital, services and technology into the country. As an impetus to economic growth, the government has eased the restrictions on flow of foreign exchange transactions. The...

The Ministry of Defence is the biggest landholder in the Government with a holding of 17.31 lakh acres of land. Of this, approximately 2 lakh acres are inside the 62 Cantonments located in various parts of the country. Outside these Cantonments,...

ONGC Videsh Limited (Company) is a wholly owned overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited. It is engaged in oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) projects, with the objective of ensuring energy security for the country. Up...

In June 2009 Ministry of Defence informed the Comptroller & Auditor General of India that consequent to a case having been registered by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against Shri Sudipta Ghosh, former Director General Ordnance Factories ...

Iron and Steel industry is the most polluting and resource intensive industry. As it consumes huge amount of natural resources like coal, iron ore, etc., as raw material, it has to be responsible towards environment protection and peripheral...

The present report contains the results of the performance audit of the Canteen Stores Department (CSD) under Ministry of Defence. The audit was conducted by the office of the Director General of Audit, Defence Services under the direction of the...

This Audit Report includes matters arising out of the performance audits of (a) Operation and Maintenance of Mi series Helicopters in the Indian Air Force and (b) Functioning of the Aviation Arm of the Indian Navy. Helicopters are a key component of ...